On this day :

1902 Fannie Farmer opens cooking school, 1784 State of Franklin declares independence, 1904 Patent for tire chain issued, 1861 Rose Greenhow is arrested, 1979 Aleksandr Godunov defects to United States, 2006 Austrian teen escapes after eight years in captivity, 1999 NYC reports first cases of West Nile virus, 1926 Valentino dies, 1927 Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 2000 First Survivor finale airs, 1869 Edgar Lee Masters author of Spoon River Anthology is born, 1970 Lou Reed plays his last show with the Velvet Underground, 1877 Texas Rangers arrest John Wesley Hardin, 1814 Dolley Madison saves portrait from British, 1989 Pete Rose gets booted from baseball, 1966 US cargo ship strikes a mine near Saigon, 1968 Communist forces renew offensive, 1914 Battle of Mons, 1939 The HitlerStalin Pact,